When your company hires new employees or transfers employees from one department to another, the system proposes wage types in the Basic Pay infotype (0008). These default values often depend on the personnel area and/or employee group/subgroup.

For a better understanding of the procedure, read the next step before performing this one.

In this step, you can define the key for default wage types in accordance with the above conditions.

The actual wage types are defined in the next section.

If you want to define default wage types for some, but not all, employee subgroups, group those employee subgroups with the same default wage types with this feature. This saves you work in the next step.

Example

The Basic Pay infotype (0008) should propose the wage type "standard pay" for pay scale employees, and "non-standard salary" for non-pay-scale employees, when you hire an employee or transfer employees to another department.

Requirements

The terms you use to default the different wage types must have been defined, for example, personnel area, employee group and subgroup.

Your personnel areas, employee groups and subgroups must be defined.

Your wage type catalog must be defined.

You have defined the permissibility of wage types for infotypes.

You have set wage type characteristics.

You have grouped employee subgroups and personnel subareas for primary wage types.

Standard settings

The standard SAP system contains a model for the feature Planned remuneration specification (LGMST).

When your company hires new employees or transfers employees from one department to another, the system proposes wage types in the Basic Pay infotype (0008). These default values often depend on the personnel area and/or employee group/subgroup.

For a better understanding of the procedure, read the next step before performing this one.

In this step, you can define the key for default wage types in accordance with the above conditions.

The actual wage types are defined in the next section.

If you want to define default wage types for some, but not all, employee subgroups, group those employee subgroups with the same default wage types with this feature. This saves you work in the next step.

Example

The Basic Pay infotype (0008) should propose the wage type "standard pay" for pay scale employees, and "non-standard salary" for non-pay-scale employees, when you hire an employee or transfer employees to another department.